1. Achieving Good Mental Health
Chapter 7
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2. Review From Lesson 3 What are Emotions? What are the 7 emotions?
Emotions are signals that tell your mind and body how to react
What are the 7 emotions?
Happiness
Sadness
Love
Empathy
Fear
Guilt
Anger

3. Lesson 4
Managing Emotions
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4. Dealing with Emotions in Positive Ways
You have learned various positive and negative ways of expressing your emotions from your;
Environment
Experiences
Others
Negative ways of dealing with your feelings do nothing to help you solve your problems.
Over-exaggerating emotions for effect
Pretending the feelings are not there at all
Intentionally hurting someone else

5. Strategies for Responding to Your Emotions
Look below the surface of your emotion
Is the situation that important it will matter tomorrow or down the road?
Consider all possible consequences first
Use positive feelings to inspire yourself
If your negative feelings do not go away, seek help from a parent, friend, or trusted adult

6. Difficult Emotions
Intense emotions can affect your attitude and behavior.
Using strategies can help you solve and interpret personal conflicts.
Write in a private journal
Play music
Talk about your feelings

7. Managing Your Difficult Emotions
1) Defense Mechanisms-
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations.
Common Defense Mechanisms (full list on pg. 190)
Suppression- Holding back or restraining.
Can provide temporary escape from an unpleasant situation
Ex: Using alcohol and drugs to hide your feelings
Denial- Unconscious lack of acknowledgment of something that is obvious to others
Ex: Having an eating disorder, lying to yourself and those around you (denying) however, your family and friends know the truth.
In the long run, defense mechanisms may keep you from facing what is really troubling you.

8. On your own paper, write in the correct defense mechanism. Pg. 190
1. stating that you were fired because you didn't kiss up the boss, when the real reason was your poor performance
2. sitting in a corner and crying after hearing bad news; throwing a temper tantrum when you don't get your way
3. forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and anxiety
4. trying to forget something that causes you anxiety

9. Answers
Rationalization: stating that you were fired because you didn't kiss up the boss, when the real reason was your poor performance
Regression: sitting in a corner and crying after hearing bad news; throwing a temper tantrum when you don't get your way
Repression: forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and anxiety
Suppression: trying to forget something that causes you anxiety

10. Managing Your Difficult Emotions Continued…
2) Handling Fear
An emotion many people work to overcome
Identify your fear
Analyze the situation that causes the fear
Talking about your fear
Some fears are healthy and natura
3) Dealing with Guilt
Guilt can be a very destructive emotion
Try to get to the underlying source of your guilt
Learn from your mistake, and be more careful
Discuss the situation, some may be out of your control

11. Managing Your Difficult Emotions Continued…
4) Managing Anger
Anger can be one of the most difficult emotions.
Get to the underlying source of your anger and address it
If there is nothing you can do about the source of your anger, there is always a way to cope with the feelings.

12. Strategies for managing anger
Try seeing an upsetting issue from the other persons perspective.
Learn to relax
Practice trusting other people
Develop your listening skills
Learn to be assertive (not passive or aggressive)

13. Answer review question #4 pg. 191
On your own:
Answer both parts of question #4 on your own paper.
we will review the answers together.